MAIL(1) BSD General Commands Manual MAIL(1)
NAME
mail - send and receive mail
SYNOPSIS
mail [-iInv] [-s subject] [-c cc-addr] [-b bcc-addr] to-addr...
mail [-iInNv] -f [name]
mail [-iInNv] [-u user]
INTRODUCTION
Mail is an intelligent mail processing system, which has a command syntax
reminiscent of ed(1) with lines replaced by messages.
-v Verbose mode. The details of delivery are displayed on the user's
terminal.
-i Ignore tty interrupt signals. This is particularly useful when
using mail on noisy phone lines.
-I Forces mail to run in interactive mode even when input isn't a ter-
minal. In particular, the '~' special character when sending mail
is only active in interactive mode.
-n Inhibits reading /etc/mail.rc upon startup.
-N Inhibits the initial display of message headers when reading mail
or editing a mail folder.
-s Specify subject on command line (only the first argument after the
-s flag is used as a subject; be careful to quote subjects contain-
ing spaces.)
-c Send carbon copies to list of users.
-b Send blind carbon copies to list. List should be a comma-separated
list of names.
-f Read in the contents of your mbox (or the specified file) for pro-
cessing; when you quit, mail writes undeleted messages back to this
file.
-u Is equivalent to:
mail -f /var/spool/mail/user
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